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Quoting ChristinaBianca: Well, I'm trying to get CS this week I'm going to put in my application. My sons father gets paid under the table. So I'm not sure how I would get anything from him. He has not helped out at all.

Quoting ChristinaBianca: Well, I'm trying to get CS this week I'm going to put in my application. My sons father gets paid under the table. So I'm not sure how I would get anything from him. He has not helped out at all.

i'm 30 weeks pregnant and my childs father does not want to pay child support, but requested that he have 50/50 custody with me. I'm ok with split custody, I want him to be a part of her life, but I am also struggling financially and have to rely on my family while I'm on maternity leave. He said that he's going to use that against me if I fight him on custody. Is there anything I can do?? I'm very stressed out about this.

He can try to use that against you, but I doubt he'll get very far with it.

If you're struggling financially and want to provide your daughter the same type of upbringing at your home as she will get with her father on his parenting time, chances are you will be entitled to receive child support.

Quoting ZombieMommy2014:

i'm 30 weeks pregnant and my childs father does not want to pay child support, but requested that he have 50/50 custody with me. I'm ok with split custody, I want him to be a part of her life, but I am also struggling financially and have to rely on my family while I'm on maternity leave. He said that he's going to use that against me if I fight him on custody. Is there anything I can do?? I'm very stressed out about this.

My situation is that I am currently waiting to receive a summons for a hearing after my babys dad finally took his paternity test. My daughter is 3 months old (probably 4 months by the time we have a hearing) and I have yet been able to get even 1 penny from him or any assistance with buying diapers, wipes, clothes, toys, ect... My bf and I (along with some help from my own parents have supplied everything these first few months and when I try to ask him any questions regarding help or if he would want visitation he tells me he won't even discuss it until she knows he is hers. I need to know how to go about trying to get child support backdated to her birth? He knows that there was at least a possibility of her being his and has not made an attempt to help me support her. Do I bring it up at this first hearing or do I schedule a different kind of hearing?

Are you working with an attorney? If so talk to him/her about the situation, but generally, yes, I'd bring up the topic of child support.

Quoting kimberlylewis95: My situation is that I am currently waiting to receive a summons for a hearing after my babys dad finally took his paternity test. My daughter is 3 months old (probably 4 months by the time we have a hearing) and I have yet been able to get even 1 penny from him or any assistance with buying diapers, wipes, clothes, toys, ect... My bf and I (along with some help from my own parents have supplied everything these first few months and when I try to ask him any questions regarding help or if he would want visitation he tells me he won't even discuss it until she knows he is hers. I need to know how to go about trying to get child support backdated to her birth? He knows that there was at least a possibility of her being his and has not made an attempt to help me support her. Do I bring it up at this first hearing or do I schedule a different kind of hearing?